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The shortest path to a high IELTS band.

The hours lost hunting for materials are over. Follow the fastest, surest roadmap, in the program that fits your level.

Lora, Tier One English tutor
Lora Kim
Founder · Head Instructor
  • 8 years teaching IELTS
  • 2,000+ students coached
Daily assignment system

Set assignments and feedback, every day.

Instant marked feedback

Sentence-level corrections the moment you submit.

A roadmap for every level

Start at the level your diagnostic confirms.

Real results. Real talk.

From a student's blog

Our scholarship student, from Overall 5.0 to 6.5 in a month

An enrolled student wrote up each week exactly as it happened.

Week 1NAVER blog

Self-study wasn't moving my speaking or writing

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Chaehui

Works with overseas clients

With writing and speaking I couldn't even tell if I was doing it right. On my own, I had no way to learn the scoring criteria.

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Week 2NAVER blog

The weekly report named my weak spots in numbers

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Chaehui

Works with overseas clients

Speaking and writing were my focus areas, and those were exactly where I felt weak, so the analysis felt genuinely accurate.

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Week 3NAVER blog

Speaking-focus week, down to fixing pronunciation habits

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Chaehui

Works with overseas clients

Repeating words like three, through, thousand, I could feel the shape of my mouth actually changing.

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Week 4NAVER blog

From Overall 5.0 to 6.5 in four weeks

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Chaehui

Works with overseas clients

On my own I'd never have even known this structure. I can honestly recommend it to anyone who, like me, can't finish on their own.

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From a UK master's scholarship student

NAVER blog
Overall 6.0 → goal 7.0

Stuck at 6.0 on my own, so I finally chose an academy

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Lovely BK

UK master's scholarship student

Going from 6.0 to 7.0 isn't about studying harder. It's about knowing the scoring criteria exactly and training to it, and figuring that out alone was my limit.

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NAVER blog
Overall 6.0 → 7.5 achieved

After a year stuck, I finally hit Overall 7.5

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Lovely BK

UK master's scholarship student

After floundering on my own for a year, I finally reached 7.5. For areas you can't score yourself, like writing and speaking, there's no breaking the plateau without someone pointing things out every day.

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A three-shift nurse's 7.0 review

NAVER blog
One month in, Overall 7.0

Days, evenings, nights, and Overall 7.0 at the end of the month

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Angelcrew

Three-shift nurse, moving to Australia

Everyone asked whether it was even possible while working three shifts. On days my body could take it I sat full practice tests, and on the days after a night shift I did vocabulary or listening only. Choosing not to break the streak beat trying to fill every hour perfectly.

Overall

7.0

Listening

7.5

Reading

7.5

Writing

6.0

Speaking

6.5

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Her July roster: days, evenings, nights, offs. She set the study load per shift type instead of forcing the same hours every day.
27 days without a gap. Her mock band moved a full 1.0 from the 5.5 she started at, with the 7.0 target on the same screen.
Every Task 2 essay came back scored per criterion, with the sentences she was still translating out of Korean marked line by line.

Learn your way

Two ways to prepare. One goal.

Pick the program that fits your schedule and how you learn.

Live Class Programs

Real-time classes, real coaching, finished together.

  • Weekly live group classes

    Learn in real time with your instructor and cohort; every class is recorded.

  • Writing & speaking review

    Your instructor works through what you submitted that week.

  • A dedicated manager

    1:1 pace-keeping from enrollment to exam day.

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VOD Programs

Anytime, anywhere, at your pace.

  • A new lesson every week

    A fresh video lesson unlocks every Monday.

  • The same curriculum

    The same roadmap and daily assignments as the live cohorts.

  • Instant marked feedback

    Sentence-level corrections the moment you submit.

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Try it first

Solve a real IELTS paper, free.

The same computer-delivered player our students train on. Real reading and listening papers, scored the moment you finish. No account needed.

Know your score

Get your band score in 25 minutes.

A free diagnostic across grammar, vocabulary, reading, listening, writing, and speaking. Finish and you see your estimated IELTS band and the program that closes the gap.

Before You Commit. Straight Answers.

The questions we hear most often from students weighing the decision. If yours isn't here, reach out.

From the Founder

I built this because I wished it existed for me.

I spent two years trying to push past IELTS 6.5 in big classrooms in Seoul. The feedback I got back was always some version of "study more." My band score didn't move, and I didn't know what to fix.

So I became a teacher. Eight years at a Gangnam (P) academy teaching IELTS Writing and Reading. And I saw the same gap from the other side: lessons get optimized for the middle of the room, and students who should be hitting 7.5 plateau at 6.5 because no one tells them, specifically, what to fix. The work isn't personal, so the scores aren't either.

Tier One is the program I wish I'd had. I built a system that tells each student, one-on-one, exactly where they're falling short and helps them fix it right then. IELTS burns people out, and when life gets busy, completion rates drop. So a dedicated learning manager personally supports your studying one-on-one.

Lora Kim
Founder · Tier One English
8 years teaching IELTS in GangnamWriting · Reading specialist2,000+ students coached
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